Wiesbaden / Roxboro (internet-zeitung) – Ernst Probst, a German journalist and author from Wiesbaden, born in Bavaria in 1946, experienced a miracle. Shortly before his 80th birthday, he solved the mystery of his father’s identity. A DNA test of his saliva, sent to Ireland, revealed that he was fathered in April 1945 by the American soldier Woodrow ("Woodie") Bradsher Davis (1914–1971). Woodrow was one of the numerous US soldiers who captured the town of Neunburg vorm Wald in the Oberpfalz without a fight a few months before the end of the war. The American moved on, unaware that his affair with the German office worker Erna Probst (1923–2001) had resulted in several kilograms of birth defects. Erna took the secret of her son's father to her grave. After his mother's death, Ernst learned from an aunt that his father was nicknamed "Woodie", had a large head and was married in the United States. After many inquiries proved unsuccessful, Ernst...